The Laundry RPG recently appeared in a Bundle of Holding deal, and we were bowled over by the response. The Laundry is now in the hands of hundreds more gamers.

As is inevitable with such a darkly funny book, parts of it have started appearing on social media as new Laundry players share their personal highlights with their friends. One particular section from the print edition of the core Laundry manual seems to have really struck a chord. At the time of writing it's been retweeted 647 times, with 520 favourites. It has had 145 +1s on Google plus and 126 shares. It's just reaching Facebook now as far as we can see.

We've never really gone viral before (there was that one time with the Yggdrassil video on youtube but that's another story), so we thought we'd share.

@hishgraphics shared this shot of the Laundry core book, and it's gone crazy:

Here's the whole page, written by the inestimable Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. We hope you find it as funny as we do. Click it to enlarge.

About The Laundry

The Laundry Files Roleplaying Game novels by Charles Stross. In the game, you play officers of the Laundry, that eccentric and underfunded agency dedicated to protecting the United Kingdom from unthinkable horrors. The Laundry uses the Basic Roleplaying System - the same system that powers the classic Call of Cthulhuroleplaying game (so you can easily convert adventures from one game to the other). As Laundry staff, you're trained to deal with the weird and ghastly spawn of the Mythos, you're equipped with the best equipment your committee-approved mission budget can buy, and you've got back-up on call from the SAS.

All of that means you're only terrifyingly underprepared, as opposed to completely screwed, when the shoggoth hits the fan.

Some reviews of the Laundry RPG:

"It takes the nihilistic horror of the Cthulhu mythos and makes it into a joke, just so that it can then turn it back around into a nihilistic horror setting once more. God spare England, because Cthulhu won’t."

"If you happen to be a fan of Charles Stross’ “Laundry Files” who games, then The Laundry is going to be near perfect for you. If you are a fan of Lovecraftian investigative horror, then The Laundry presents another approach to the genre, one that is more focused, much drier in feel, and with a very much drier wit. Lastly, this is the only RPG of Lovecraftian investigative horror that bothers to discuss a pension plan, so you know The Laundry makes sense."

The GAMA trade show is an annual get-together for games manufacturers, distributors and retailers. It all happens in Las Vegas, and just as in previous years Cubicle 7 was in attendance - this year, however, we were co-sponsors for the first time!

Being based in the UK Las Vegas is a long way for us to travel but we find GAMA to be well worth the trip. It's a chance for us to meet face to face with our fellow publishers, distributors and retailers.

Our busy production schedule, and the way the hobby games industry is set up, means we don't always get a chance to communicate as much as we would like with our partners and contemporaries. The GAMA trade show offers precisely that chance, in a dedicated space.

It's not an event we've spoken much about before here on the Cubicle 7 website, but this year we decided to change that with our report about what we got up to at this year's GAMA trade show. What happened in Vegas isn't staying in Vegas!

“Do you want to come with me? But if you do I should warn you: you’re going to see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past, aliens from the future, the day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won’t be quiet, it won’t be safe and it won’t be calm, but I tell you what it will be: a trip of a lifetime!” – The Ninth Doctor

10 years ago today, after a hiatus of nearly a decade away from our TV screens, Doctor Who returned with the episode Rose – and started the trip of a lifetime that we’re still embarked upon today! On today’s blog, we thought we’d take a look at the past ten years of Doctor Who, through the lens of our own games and supplements!

All pre-orders come with a complementary copy of the PDF versions. The PDFs are available now, the print copies are expected Summer 2015. Pre-order at our webstore, at your local games store, or pick up the PDF versions now from here and here.

All pre-orders come with a complementary copy of the PDF versions. The PDFs are available now, the print copies are expected Summer 2015. Pre-order at our webstore, at your local games store, or pick up the PDF versions now from here and here.

There's a little over a day left to take advantage of our Bundle of Laundry, an exclusive deal for a bundle of Laundry RPG e-books at an amazing price. AND get a discount coupon for the hardcopy versions at our webstore!

In The Laundry RPG, players take on the role of secret government agents who fight Cthulhu Mythos horrors and bureaucratic supervisors using computational magic programs installed on their Necronomiphones. They can save the world, but they have to get a receipt!

Throughout 2015, we're bringing World War Cthulhu to Kickstarter, allowing us to bring our gritty espionage take on Call of Cthulhu to three new eras of the 20th Century. The first of these Kickstarted settings (by popular demand!) will be World War Cthulhu: Cold War, which acts as a natural sequel but stark contrast to World War Cthulhu: The Darkest Hour.

World War Cthulhu: Cold War is a Call of Cthulhu setting full of thrilling espionage, tense horror and sudden betrayal set at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s. You play spies working for British intelligence, battling both the Soviet and Mythos threat. You are lost in an ocean of treachery, unsure of who to trust, trying against all odds to buy the world one more day…

We’ve just added License to Summon, our guide to magic (and magical gadgets) in the world of the Laundry Files, to our Bundle of Laundry, making it an even better deal than before. And, if you’ve already bought it, we’ve added License to Summon to your files already!

The Bundle of Laundry is an exclusive deal for a bundle of Laundry RPG e-books at an amazing price. AND get a discount coupon for the hardcopy versions at our webstore! Agents of The Laundry fight Cthulhu Mythos horrors and bureaucratic supervisors using computational magic programs installed on their Necronomiphones. They can save the world, but they have to get a receipt.

Time is running out on it too - you've got just 5 days left to take advantage of this insanely good offer.

Backers of our Cthulhu Britannica: London Kickstarter at any reward level will have received a rather hefty treat in their inboxes last week – the second and third of our stretch goals, PDFs of The Journal of Neve Selcibuc and The Journal of Reginald Campbell Thompson.

Each of these Journals is a 64-page, digest-sized novella designed to accompany our recently released Call of Cthulhu campaign, The Curse of Nineveh. But, if you missed out on the Kickstarter, don’t worry – you’ll be able to pre-order your own copies next week.

To celebrate the fact that our Bundle of Laundry deal is going gangbusters at the moment, we've dug into some of the books on offer to give you a free adventure to download, as well as new extracts from some of the other books in the deal too!

The Bundle of Laundry is an exclusive deal for a bundle of Laundry RPG e-books at an amazing price. AND get a discount coupon for the hardcopy versions at our webstore! Agents of The Laundry fight Cthulhu Mythos horrors and bureaucratic supervisors using computational magic programs installed on their Necronomiphones. They can save the world, but they have to get a receipt.